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All indications are that Dan and Mendes will take 6 months and then give EON a decision. Barbara seems confident she can come to an arrangement with both. The apparent box office success of Spectre having taken £40M in the UK on opening week alone will fill Mendes and Craig with confidence to continue to do more and will put EON in a good place to negotiate the best deal for the film rights. Hopefully that matter can be sorted quickly and by next summer it can be confirm Craig and Mendes will be back.
I personally would rather Mendes move on because there is too much homage than moving it forward with new ideas. But he should be the one to finish it off. It's clear Craig enjoys working with Mendes more than with Foster on QOS or Campbell on CR. He refers to Mendes as allie. I don't think he would publicly say it but I think by that he means when Sony were attempting to put pressure on with product placement Mendes sided with Craig over issues such as the mobile, Craig knowing Mendes has his back feels he can concentrate on what's going on, on screen.
Better than CR??? Surely not.
This is what I really want, even as a consultant, although I know it likely will never happen.....sadly.
One of the greats when it comes to Bond and probably the only great thing (apart from Craig) in the last 20 yrs. If you gave him $300m or $250m (rather than the relative pittance he had to work with on GE/CR) you'd get something incredible. I just watched that crane scene again this weekend and after 9 yrs, it still just blew me away completely. Totally Bond and up there with the most iconic things they've done. Same with the GE opening jump.
I agree. People are baffled by those of us that do not believe CR is the second coming.
I hope you're not suggesting that they should have continued on the critically acclaimed path that they were on prior to CR?
No, I would personally have advocated a For Your Eyes Only effect with Brosnan. But ah well, the producers know better how to adapt to the times they go through. :)
...Did I?
That could have worked.
There is a difference. CR was certainly an improvment on TWINE and DAD. That being said I don't think it warrants Bond fans sitting in a circle chanting kumbaya. Its a better than average Bond flick, that's about it.
It feels very different to the TDK/TDKR scenario to me. There is a tonal shift between SF and SP that doesn't exist between the latter two Nolan films. While it continues a few of the themes and plot strands, as a whole it is a completely different movie from SF. It feels fresh and exhilarating, which is a hard thing to achieve coming off the back of SF's success. Were the same creative team given a third crack of the whip, I've now no doubt it would be different again. There is more gas left in the tank, so to speak, where TDKR signalled they were just about empty. I think there's a final movie in the current team, sans Logan.
Fair point. Every film has flaws. The Venice part & Vesper romance of CR is not a high point for me. In fact, I don't like watching it. I prefer to skip from the phenomenal 'ball buster' straight to the equally great 'Bond, James Bond' ending.
Yes @RC7, from reading the reviews, I gather there is that tonal shift which is quite pronounced. I suspect this is what is throwing some of those 'who are uncomfortable with the film' off.
In TDKR, Bane & Catwoman were realized in quite a mature (imho) fashion, similar to what was done in TDK (Joker) and BB (Ra's Al Ghul). Everything had a consistency. TDKR did feel like the true completion of a circle, but then it was always just going to be that......the end of Nolan's trilogy.
The fact that SP has a tonal shift suggests that they may be trying to take us quickly back to the pre-DC environment so that he can move on. It seems surprising otherwise to reportedly shift the tone like this, because it does leave some viewers with a possible unexpected jarred experience. Again, difficult to say without having seen it, but I would have thought they should have probably developed Blofeld more thoroughly. There appears to be a rushed/shoehorned quality (again from reading reviews) which is / may seem odd to some, given the character's importance.
I like to look at CR like this. The first bit up until Vesper and Bond meet on the train is decent enough. The poker game and torture section is amazing, top notch Bond. Then I feel the 'love story' ending is very underwhelming IMO. The execution is just poor.
Not a jab against Campbell ...just not what he's known for ...but then neither was Bond sans OHMSS.
It works pretty perfectly for me.
As for Martin Campbell, he's 72 years old. I don't think he will risk his legacy by coming back to finish it all off, I don't think he would have done CR if it wasn't for the fact he's a fan and the chance to put a Fleming novel on screen was something he could not resist getting involved in.
Oh I see. Makes sense.
And @SirHilaryBray I didn't know that Campbell was 72?
You know Deakins is up there too.
QOS is still the seriously flawed one but SP has given it some added weight with the tying things together.
Mendes though for me is better director than Campbell and he gets great performances out of actors, SPECTRE is littered with great work from all the cast and both this and SF show Craig at his strongest in the role.
I don't imagine Jesper would have returned as Mr White if he's just been solely a piece of exposition to move the story on, his redemption gave his character a touching sign off and an actor of his calibre no doubt saw that and reprised the role, that and a chance to work with Mendes.
As for Craig returning, when the film finished, my Wife turned to me and said she couldn't understand why people were saying it's obvious this is Craig's last. Swann's comments even hint that she doesn't believe that Bond can give up the life and I can even envisage a PTS to bring Bond back to being a double O again.
I think and hope that Craig will be back for at least one more go around.
The comment about cinematography was confusing, not only because I think it's beautiful in QoS, I also don't remember ever having seen anyone complain about it before, but rather praise it. Then next sentence suggests you actually meant editing. Too hectic at times to my taste as well.
Well... George Miller is 70, Michael Mann is 72, Martin Scorsese is 72 (73 in 2 weeks) Ridley Scott is 77 (78 at the end of this month), Clint Eastwood is 85... and they're all working. Depends on one's health and energy, of course, more than age. Compared to Eastwood Campbell is relatively young. :)
I can't understand it, either. Sure could be, but it certainly isn't "obvious" at all. Quite the opposite in fact, like you said.
Btw, I was so glad Christensen returned - both the character and the actor, and that section in the movie was one of my favorites. He also gave one of my fave performances in the movie, along with Craig and Whishaw.
When I heard he was returning I was delighted, not just the way he would tie into things for the Craig films and give QOS more validity instead of being forgotten about but it all felt unfinished, when it looked like he'd just be forgotten like Quantum.
His moments in CR are great but it's that interrogation scene and his witty Tosca remark that were his most memorable in QOS, his moment in SP adds another aspect to the character and presents more than just a thinly sketched outline moving the plot on.
Although I though everyone pretty much hit their marks here, Wishaw was an absolute joy but Fiennes & Harris were great. I also can't help but root for Kinnear's Tanner, I know some here find him bland but I think he does fine with what he's given and team MI6 are on fine form here.